Steam Deck: How to Install Yuzu - Ultimate Guide

Steam Deck is quite extensive and that is why today we will tell you how to install Yuzu.

What to know about Yuzu in Steam Deck?

 This is an emulator that is usually favorable and with which we are allowed to play some games, in this sense, it is necessary to take care of knowing How to install Yuzu, above all, taking into account that there are several ways to use this emulator and even though this does not usually work directly and to give you more details about it we have made this explanatory guide.

How to install Yuzu on Steam Deck?

 Yuzu is an emulator that can be used to play Switch games in Steam Deck and it is a bit complex, even when it is easily available in the Discover Store we must take into account some particularities and this implies:

 

•  Have the Nintendo Switch key.
• Have an SD card with at least 20 GB of free space.
• Have a USB Type-C cable that can support Steam Deck for cloud storage.

 

 It should be noted that there is the possibility that Steam Deck has uBlock Origins, Chrome or Firefox because this can make this cloud hosting process easier, however, we require another program that allows us to do this process more easily. fast and we can use Ark in Steam Deck or 7zip in the case of PC.

 To know how to install Yuzu, it is necessary to go to the desktop mode of Steam Deck, we must also have the keyboard enabled, then press Steam X or install CoreKeyBoard, this is usually done from the Discover Store and to execute this process we must:
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• Click on CoreKeyBoard and go to Applications.
• Next, we'll go to Accessibility and then Install CoreKeyBoeard.
• Next, we will go to Back and then to the Start Menu where All applications are.
• You need to right-click on CoreKeyBoard and then click Pin to Task Manager.

 

 Another of the necessary requirements to know how to install Yuzu is to have Ark for Steam Deck and this can be easily obtained in the Discover Store and installed in the Applications folder.

 

•  Our next task to execute takes us to visit the Discover Store in order to go to Applications and then to Games.
• We will search for Emulators and locate Yuzu to proceed to install it.

 

 In the case of using cloud storage, it is necessary to take care of downloading and installing uBlock Originos and this applies both in the case of Firefox and Chrome.

 We must have the ability to transfer "prod.key" files and in this case we must be careful that the file is formatted in "exFat" and once they are ready we proceed to load them on the USB drive or SD card, here we will convert the game files as “.nsp or .xci” and we will proceed to archive them to upload or transfer to Steam Deck.

 There is the possibility of placing the files in the Steam Deck locations and this involves going to Dolphin in the Stean Deck task bar, then selecting Options at the top on the right hand side to show the hidden files and make use of the SD or USB card and confirm in the Mount and open window, then, we will have to select the files except for “prod.keys”, then we will go to the start tab in Dolphin and go to Documents in the left panel where we must create a ROM folder and right-click in the window to go to Create New and then go to Folder.

 It is vital to create a subfolder and call it Change, here we paste all the game files inside it, in addition to ROOM and extract, then we execute Yuzu and ignore the error message, this implies closing the error and Yuzu to return to Dolphin where we will copy all the prod.key files, we will go to Start and then to .var to locate the application org.yuzu_emu.yuzu, next, we locate data, in addition to yuzu and open it to locate the files and the yuzu folder, then keys and we will paste there the prod.keys file.

 Now that you know How to install Yuzu and even when you encounter the error you can do the following and this involves going to View to reset the window size to 720p and then Emulation to go to Configure and locate Graphics where we will change these settings:

• API-Vulkan
• AMD RADV VANGOGH Color Device.
• Disable use disk pipe cache.
• Disable asynchronous GPU emulation.
• Disable Accelerate ASTC Texture.
• GPU video decoding (default)
• NVDEC emulation.
• Borderless Window for Full Screen Mode.
• Stretch Window to Aspect Ratio.
• Resolution (720p/1080p.
• AMD FSR (for Vulkan) for Window Adaptive Filter.
• None / Enabled for Anti-Aliasing Method.

 

  Driver Settings.

•   Connect Controller to Pro for Player 1.
• Steam Virtual Gamepad for Input Device.
• We will set the profile and configuration keys.
• Press Save and then Ok to confirm.

 

  Now that you know how to install Yuzu, it's time to run it and thus be able to play Nintendo Switch games in Steam Deck.